Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CALCUTTA! is, for a good part of the evening, diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised. If it gets a minus on eroticism, the show does get two solid plusses for the laughter it evokes and its celebration of the body beautiful...
ZEKE'S BIRTHDAY has been with better company, OPALINE and NYMPH OF OCALA are solid but slow...
...afeard there are few die well that die in a battle" is a Negro, suggesting that the king rules by exploitive oppression. When the list of the French dead is read, each dead man rises with a blood-splotched white mask to stand at the footlights in a solid phalanx facing the audience...
...been a steady climb to this peak for John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...
...immutable truths, two itinerant Negro waiters named Dave Greene and Blueboy Harris make themselves rich by setting up a thriving numbers bank in the city's ghetto. Like so many other aspects of the black world, the numbers operation is an inverted form of a white institution, the solid local business community. It, too, boosts the economy and shapes the ghetto's social and political structure. For the author, a former waiter, it further serves as an arena for playing off characters who embody multiple visions of the Negro destiny...